Top 100 Quotes About Assets
#1. Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports,
Elaine Chao
#3. I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.
Pete Fountain
#4. Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully for its hidden assets.
Michael Korda
#5. Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.
Jane Fonda
#6. The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks.
Warren Buffett
#7. There could be no better time to fully integrate Infinity with Viacom's tremendous portfolio of assets. Infinity is performing at record levels and continues to generate a tremendous amount of free cash flow that will now fully benefit Viacom.
Mel Karmazin
#8. When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
Lou Holtz
#9. The most valuable asset a nation has is the creativity of its children.
Alan Plater
#10. When I was young, I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns, because of their experiences under communism for example.
Herve Falciani
#11. Teachers are the architects of a Nation. They build characters, construct personalities and strengthen spirits in learners who become National Assets of tomorrow.
Kavita Bhupta Ghosh
#13. We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#14. The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.
Peter Drucker
#15. Whites have been the most subsidized group in the history of the United States and maybe the history of the world, while Blacks were enslaved and were the assets of Whites.
Ishmael Reed
#17. Well, why didn't you list that among our assets in the first place?
William Goldman
#18. The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
Ben Feldman
#19. The greatest visionaries do not consider the limits of their assets, but they rather grow despite those limitations.
Scott Appleton
#20. Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
Bethany McLean
#21. There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.
Orison Swett Marden
#22. Life is a great asset we must all endeavor to acquire, keep and daily maintain it well with all due diligence, for without life, all other assets have no real meaning to our lives.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#23. Time - the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#24. Net Assets means the total assets minus total liabilities. The
Jigar Patel
#25. Get in the habit of speaking positive, faith-filled words over your life, because a healthy self-image is one of the greatest assets you can have. It will not only cause you to rise higher, but it will inspire others around you to live at their best.
Victoria Osteen
#26. It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus, you see students drawn from all over the world - an astonishing number these days with roots in Asia - whose chief assets are brainpower and hard work.
David Ignatius
#27. I swore I was going to exclusively collect assets and not liabilities for the rest of my life. I swore never to take gambles I couldn't back up, or that I couldn't afford to lose. And, I've stuck with that ever since.
Tim Blixseth
#28. The idea that an independent Scotland - having separated assets and liabilities from the rest of the U.K. - would expect the rest of the U.K. to be a lender of last resort, and of course be kind to them, doesn't make any sense.
Johann Lamont
#29. Well, I feel that we're kind of fortunate that this book gives the whole world a lesson in economics and how to get out of the mess that we're all in. It's basic message is to try and stop spending as much and try to release some of your assets to pay off your debt.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#30. You have a real asset-price bubble in places like parts of California and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
Charlie Munger
#31. Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#32. All you need in this life is; health and happiness. If you have these two assets you have everything you desire.
Kathleen M. Waddington
#34. A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.
Timothy Keller
#35. One way to make sure you don't lose assets in the future is to streamline your accounts. Consider using one bank for all your banking needs and one brokerage firm for all your investments.
Jean Chatzky
#36. Earnings can change dramatically. Usually assets change slowly.
Walter Schloss
#37. Keep expenses low, reduce liabilities, and diligently build a base of solid assets.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#38. My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.
Nandan Nilekani
#39. There i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?
Kurt Vonnegut
#40. I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.
Chuck Hagel
#41. Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.
Oliver E. Williamson
#42. Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#43. Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it.
Wendy Kopp
#44. Embelish your flaws. They will turn into your assets. And if you become one of us, I will teach you to wield them like an assassin wields a knife.
Marie Lu
#45. Two of the things to look out for are that operational cash flows should match or be close to profit levels, and current assets should exceed current liabilities.
Matthew Kidman
#46. Today, banking assets (that is, loans) in the world's major economies are equivalent to around 150 per cent of those countries' combined GDP.
Niall Ferguson
#47. It's the irony of woman's life in that she tends to turn her assets to her own detriment in that while her psyche seeks to see her man strong; her instinct tries to weaken him.
BS Murthy
#48. Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people ... It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.
Carol S. Dweck
#50. Our clients are our only assets, so we kill ourselves for them.
John Grisham
#51. The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's race.
George W. Bush
#52. [When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.
Anthony Bourdain
#53. Switzerland has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, the strongest currency and the largest financial center for foreign assets. And we're a small country with no natural resources. Switzerland is the world capital of dealing in stolen goods.
Jean Ziegler
#54. A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#55. As always, work with your figure; draping, pleats, and proportion can work miracles when it comes to hiding flaws and enhancing assets.
Nina Garcia
#56. Capital investment in fixed assets that produce real goods is the actual driver of long term economic growth, and until slick financiers hijacked the country with 'new economy' mumbo-jumbo based on computer models and hype most Americans understood this.
Richard Karn
#57. With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.
Frank Keating
#58. Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.
Isabel Allende
#59. It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.
David Korten
#60. When people retire, their income drops much more sharply than their consumption. As a result, they stop saving and start drawing down the assets they've acquired during their high-saving years. That could start to put upward pressure on interest rates and downward pressure on stock prices.
Greg Ip
#61. Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.
Jonathan Kozol
#62. You don't get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets. And if the assets you bought got pushed up in price simply because they were risky, then you are not going to be rewarded for taking a risk; you are going to be punished for it.
Jeremy Grantham
#63. The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.
Warren Buffett
#64. I believe that Sean Quinn wouldn't be a man at all if he let someone steal his family's assets.
Sean Quinn
#65. The primary asset of any business is its organization.
William Feather
#66. OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.
Ambrose Bierce
#67. Native Americans were driven off their land. Lincoln even took part in the Black Hawk campaign against the Native Americans in Illinois. While they were being exterminated and driven off their land, Whites were collecting assets.
Ishmael Reed
#68. I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.
Bernard Ebbers
#69. Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices.
Michael Parenti
#70. 401(k) industry the largest dark pool of assets where nobody really knows how or whose hands are getting greased.
Anthony Robbins
#71. Why were drunks, almost always, persons of talent, personality, lovable qualities, gifts, brains, assets of all kinds (else why would anyone care?); why were so many brilliant men alcoholic?
Charles Jackson
#72. But what those critics don't know is that these same assets that excite me in the chase often, once they are acquired, leave me bored.
Donald Trump
#73. You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#74. Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse.
Timothy Noah
#75. There are three key assets in retail: real estate, inventory, and people.
Zeynep Ton
#76. , I don't think you would just be treated like a member ofan agency. You'd be treated like an asset. And assets don't get to have lives.
Maureen Johnson
#77. It has always been clear that The Washington Post is a company that is set up for the purpose of protecting the long-term interests of its assets and held together as a holding company.
Jonathan Grayer
#78. wealth in the rich countries is currently divided into two approximately equal (or comparable) parts: real estate and financial assets.
Thomas Piketty
#79. Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly.. the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game.
Noel Whittaker
#80. When you're out in the field and spending time in these different places around the world, humility is one of the most important assets that will serve you well.
Clarissa Ward
#81. Most people ... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.
James A. Baldwin
#82. Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets,
Robert Kiyosaki
#83. State and local law enforcement agencies were granted the authority to keep, for their own use, the vast majority of cash and assets they seize when waging the drug war.
Michelle Alexander
#84. Education is an asset no man can take away.
George Eliot
#85. I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.
Donald Trump
#86. As countries get wealthier - all of them, together - you're going to have financial assets. That is a good thing. You could argue the assets were traded too much, or that they're too highly valued, or too leveraged.
Jamie Dimon
#87. Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.
Nandan Nilekani
#88. In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.
Mark Edwards
#89. Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.
Larry Hagman
#91. We need to empower all women, both financially and socially, to give them the tools to support themselves and their families. We need to start seeing them as contributors to society, as assets, not as objects of pity or, even worse, objects of shame.
Cherie Blair
#92. Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.
Alfred P. Sloan
#93. Lieutenant Dallas has just given you a brief demonstration of why she's one of the most valuable assets of the NYPSD. She observes, deduces, and reports with accuracy.
J.D. Robb
#94. Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
Zig Ziglar
#95. If I am so terribly limited as to view my handicaps as nothing more than lamentable limitations, then I have taken some of my greatest God-given assets and completely handicapped them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#96. To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.
Matt Taibbi
#97. A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it new plant?
Walter Schloss
#98. Your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life.
Eric Butterworth
#99. Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets
Tom Peters
#100. Don't buy luxuries until you've built the assets to afford them
Robert Kiyosaki
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